William Barr

William Pelham Barr (23 May 1950-) was the US Attorney General from 26 November 1991 to 20 January 1993, succeeding Dick Thornburgh and preceding Janet Reno.

Biography
William Pelham Barr was born in New York City, New York in 1950, and he was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. From 1973 to 1977, he was employed by the CIA, and he served on President Ronald Reagan's domestic policy staff. In 1989, he became Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, and he became Deputy Attorney General in May 1990. In August 1991, when Attorney General Dick Thornburgh resigned to run for the US Senate, Barr succeeded him, as President George H.W. Bush had been impressed with his management of a hostage rescue situation at the Talladega federal prison in Florida. Barr was staunchly conservative, and he believed that violent crime could be reduced only by expanding federal and state prisons to jail habitual violent offenders. After leaving office in 1993, he spent 14 years as a senior corporate executive, and, on 6 December 2018, Donald Trump announced his nomination of Barr for Attorney General.